Obama: I ‘really, really, really’ want to elect Clinton

President Barack Obama doesn’t just want to elect Hillary Clinton to be the next president of the United States. He “really, really, really” wants to elect her.

Speaking at a Clinton campaign rally at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps made famous in the movie “Rocky,” the president recalled the beating the former New York senator delivered to him during their 2008 Democratic primary battle. Despite their hard-fought past, Obama said Clinton proved to be a relentless fighter with fierce integrity.

“Now, look, can I just say I am really into electing Hillary Clinton?” Obama said, interrupting the crowd’s chants of Clinton’s name. “This is not me going through the motions here. I really, really, really want to elect Hillary Clinton.”

Obama spent the bulk of the beginning of his rally ticking off his administration’s accomplishments, highlighting economic gains over the past eight years as well as renewed diplomatic ties to Cuba, a nuclear agreement with Russia and the death of Osama Bin Laden. As he listed successes from the past eight years, an audience member yelled that gas was $2 a gallon, to which the president jokingly responded “thank you for reminding me. Thanks, Obama.”

But the president also said “we knew that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term or even in one presidency,” and went on to praise Clinton as the candidate best positioned to continue the progress he touted. He compared his former secretary of state to Donald Trump, a candidate who Obama said presents a “fundamental choice about who we are as a people. This is a choice about the very meaning of America.”

“What we’ve seen from the other side in this election, this isn’t Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party. This isn’t even the vision of freedom that Ronald Reagan talked about,” he said. “This is a dark, pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, we turn away from the rest of the world. They’re not offering serious solutions. They’re just fanning resentment and blame and anger and hate. And that is not the America we know. That’s not the America I know.”

Jay

Corni

If he really, really, really wants Clinton as the new president, he makes sure that Trump will get it in a landslide. This will be achieved due to the concerted action of a pathological deceiver-in-chief with a pathological liar. Thank you Obama!

Posted on 9/14/16 | 4:22 AM CET

Daniel F.

This will only fuel the sentiment that Ms. Clinton is going for Barack Obama’s third, and potentially, fourth term, which, to my knowledge, she and her team are desperately trying to dismiss.